Chapter 1. Introduction

Table of Contents

1.1. Developers
1.2. Website Links

Kino is a non-linear DV editor for GNU/Linux. It features excellent integration with IEEE 1394 for Chapter 6, Capturing DV , VTR control, and recording back to the camera. It captures video to disk in Raw DV, AVI, and Quicktime formats.

Note

Kino does not directly edit any video encodings other than DV.

You can load or import (requires ffmpeg ) multiple DV clips and edit them non-destructively using a variety of techniques including simple split, join, cut-and-paste, and drag-and-drop operations. Then, you can save the project to a SMIL XML document. Most edit and navigation commands are mapped to equivalent vi commands (Chapter 13, Keyboard Shortcut Reference). Also, Kino can export (Chapter 10, Export) the project in a number of formats:

The FX mode (Chapter 9, FX) provides some basic audio and video effects such as filters and transitions for audio and video. It also provides extensibility through a plugin API. At the time of this writing, all plugins have been incorprated into the Kino releases except for Ruslan Popov's plugiins .

Kino does not offer multi-track capabilities through a timeline user interface, but do not let that discourage you. Many things that would require a multi-track timeline can be accomplished with more planning and manual operations. Some of the builtin effects include: